Send a key:value pair to a Circonus HTTPTrap endpoint

circonus_httptrap_push.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Note that the -k flag here means we are ignoring cert warnings.
# If security matters you should use the Circonus cert provided
# here: http://login.circonus.com/pki/ca.crt

KEY=$1
VALUE=$2
ENDPOINT_URL=$3

metric_json()
{
  echo "{ \"$KEY\": $VALUE }"
}

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -k -X PUT -d "$(metric_json)" $ENDPOINT_URL